NEW DELHI (TIP): In its report submitted to the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on November 19, the Seventh Central Pay Commission has recommended an overall increase of 23.55 per cent in pay, allowances, and […]
PATNA (TIP): Days after his party emerged as the single-largest entity in Bihar assembly trouncing the BJP-led NDA, the CBI has sought to put Lalu Prasad in the dock in a fodder scam case. The […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Apart from the GST bill, the most ambitious tax reform law, the Narendra Modi government is set to push three other crucial legislations to check corruption during the winter session of Parliament […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): NDA partner and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday spoke out on the Bihar election defeat for the first time since the verdict, saying the rival grand alliance benefitted from successfully […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Underworld don Chhota Rajan was on Nov 19 evening handed over to the Tihar jail authorities. Rajan will spend his first night in a high security cell inside jail number 2. Jail […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Hours before Nitish Kumar’s swearing-in as Bihar chief minister following an election that the BJP handsomely lost, party rebel Shatrughan Sinha, through a series of tweets, continued to taunt his party leadership, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Hitting back over BJP leader Subramaniam Swamy’s allegation questioning his nationality, Rahul Gandhi today accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “throwing mud” on him through his “cronies” and dared the government to […]
NEWYORK (TIP): India is among the 10 countries most impacted by terrorism in 2014, according to a new report which said that ISIS and Boko Haram are now jointly responsible for more than half of […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): The Punjab cabinetannounced it would introduce a new amended section (295 AA) in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to provide life imprisonment to those involved in sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib. Hurting religious […]
AMRITSAR, PUNJAB: An NRI, said to be undergoing psychiatric treatment, allegedly attempted to cross the Attari-Wagah Indo-Pak land route in his car today. His car smashed into a barrier near the international border before he was […]
LONDON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today personally conveyed his condolence to NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul, whose son Angad died a few days ago after falling from his penthouse in central London. Prime Minister Modi, who […]
The debate within the country on the wider implications of the election results on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal image and his ability to pursue his political and economic agenda has also been of interest […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government is fast losing patience with military veterans who continue to protest against what they say is a “diluted” one rank, one pension (OROP). Holding that attempts by some to burn their medals was “an insult” to the nation, defence minister Manohar Parrikar […]
LONDON (TIP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in London, November 12 on his three-day maiden visit to the United Kingdom. “My visit to UK is the first Prime Ministerial visit in almost a decade. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Home minister Rajnath Singh will undertake a five-day visit to China starting November 19 to discuss border irritants, terror concerns and security liaisoning. Singh, who will be touring Beijing and Shanghai, is […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): With cow and cow protection hog the headlines these days it’s the buffalo which faces discrimination. In the Annual Buffalo Carnival in Hyderabad there’s a Murrah buffalo ‘Yuvraj’ which needs a special […]
CHANDIGARH: It is not for the first time that a convicted killer has been ‘appointed’ as jathedar of the highest temporal body of Sikhs — the Akal Takht. Ironically, it was the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak […]
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) is contemplating to pick eminent Sikh kathavachak (preacher) Giani Pinderpal Singh (49) as the Akal Takht jathedar to replace the beleaguered Giani Gurbachan Singh. The development comes in the […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): Police registered a case of sedition on November 13 against the organisers of Sarbat Khalsa, or congregation of the Sikh faithful, in Punjab’s Chabha village on November 10 where controversial resolutions were adopted […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Three days after a VHP sympathizer was killed during violence in Madikeri, right-wing groups blocked roads in several parts of Karnataka and blocked traffic as part of a statewide protest. Skirmishes and stabbings […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): n the first major political repercussion from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) debacle in the Bihar assembly election, a quartet of veteran party stalwarts came out openly against the BJP leadership on […]
New Delhi (TIP): Twenty-seven years after his flight from India following his split with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, gangster Chhota Rajan met his two sisters at the CBI headquarters in Delhi Friday. The meeting was […]
London is set to play host to one of the most dangerous politicians on the planet this week. Not that you’ll hear any such thing when Narendra Modi arrives. Instead, we’ll be reminded that India’s prime minister […]
It isn’t official yet, but time has started running out for Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah, whose term comes up for renewal in January. The attempt to remove him from the party’s top post, which […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “undignified” language during the Bihar campaign was responsible for the party’s electoral debate, a BJP parliamentarian from the state said on November 10, joining a growing list of […]
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